Natural compost building material

Hempstatic wrote: 50% of global carbon emissions stem from heating, cooling and constructing buildings. Currently, there is only little awareness concerning this issue. Hempcrete is a natural composite building material. It consists of hemp shives (derived from the wooden inner core of industrial hemp stalks), lime-based binder and water. Our hempcrete block is a construction material that can be used to assemble walls, roofs and floors and can be adjusted to all types of buildings. More carbon dioxide is sequestered in a hempcrete wall than is used to build it. Thus, hempcrete blocks outperform zero-carbon materials and allow building carbon-negative structures... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Coffee grounds as fertilizer

SUD & SATZ wrote: Coffee grounds are being disposed as garbage - 9 million tons every year, worldwide. Our plan is to use this awesome resource in a new and innovative way. . Currently we are developing our first product: coffee to grow, an all-natural, all-compound fertilizer. This fertilizer does not only provide your plant with all the nutrients it needs, it also builds up a strong and fertile layer of humus. That way we save co2-emissions and offer a way to transform worn out low nutrient ground into a rich and profit-yielding soil for decades. . Vienna, the city with the 3rd highest coffee consumption rate worldwide, offers the perfect setting to farm this resource and learn everything we need to scale all over europe. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Color of Bacteria

Vienna Textile Lab wrote: The vienna textile lab is identifying bacteria, growing bacteria, extracting colourants and purifying the pigments in order to sell them to textile companies... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

We rent out baby and children's clothing

kindby wrote: Textile waste is one of the largest contributors to climate change. The efforts to make. Second hand cool, charity stores, pop-up stores and hand-me-downs is not able to keep up with the demand created for fast fashion by the large retailers. There are solutions offered to symptoms but not the root of the problem. We are building a scalable long term solution, which empowers sustainable producers, teaches children about it and making reuse the standard by normalising the purchase behaviour of adults. Kindby is the start of this transformation. . Kindby is an online store, on which you can buy new and used as well as rent sustainably produced baby clothing and accessories... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

We upcycle your old clothes

The modern fashion designer wrote: We upcycle clothes which are in the wardrobe of everybody! so, we give this piece a new life and it has not be produced a new one. In another country for instance a jean takes around 32kg co2 which our shop can reduce to only 1kg and the costumer will have out of this jean two pieces or more. What is important too - we can save so much water! included this process that we make for instance out of one jeans - two other pieces, we try to educate the people what the clothes made out of and how they were produced true a simple trick. And our system behind our tailor shop makes us unique and economical... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Closing the Natural Loop of Poop

DungBeetle wrote: We provide a sustainable way to do the most natural thing in the world. Our dungbeetle dry toilets work without water, nevertheless, user comfort is at the highest possible standard. There is no unpleasant smell or other inconveniences, it is the adequate toilet for everyone, everywhere!. Instead of contaminating drinking water with excrement, we mimic the natural nutrient cycle. Composting is a save and eco-friendly way of dealing with human waste, and it produces valuable organic fertilizer for food production. By reestablishing this fundamental cycle, greenhouse gas emissions and energy input can be reduced tremendously in wastewater treatment and fertilizer production... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Kern Tec

Kern Tec wrote: In europe over 500. 000 tons of peach, apricot, plum and cherry pits go to waste every year, mostly large scale manufacturers producing juices, concentrates, etc. However, these pits offer an enormous potential, but the thing that has to be done is to split and sort them into the seed and the shell. With kern tec's technology it's now possible for the first time to. Upcycle these materials to innovative and sustainable products locally. Since the seeds are rich in healthy oils and proteins they can be perfectly used as delicious snacks, oils for foods and cosmetics as well as protein bars... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

RePhil

RePhil wrote: By introducing a circular system for reusable takeaway bowls rephil reduces waste stemming from to-go packaging. Rephil provides restaurants with reusable takeaway bowls, and therefore offers take-away costumers an attractive alternative, to produce less waste in their everyday lives, while increasing their take away dining experience. After having finished their meals costumers return the empty reusable boxes in our strategically positioned drop-off stations. Rephil collects the dirty boxes, washes them and reallocates them back to the restaurants. . The first markets for rephil are closed ecosystems in austria, primarily focusing on corporate canteens, university campuses, and hospitals... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Revolutionize the access to clean energy

Semina wrote: When you think about the biggest problems of our planet. What comes into your mind? climate change? poverty? deforestation? diseases? . What if all those problems are connected. Connected via a single cause, that we pay almost no attention to. . The problem which we are speaking from, is caused by cooking over inefficient fires creating the nr. 1 leathal weapon in developing countries. . Indoor air pollution. . According to who, indoor air pollution kills nearly !4million! people every year prematurely. . The solution, super-efficient cookstoves! already exist, but the people suffering the most, simply cannot afford it. . We change that... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Energytours

Energytours wrote: Helping those who need energy not connected to the grid... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria